Basset pathos trumps all – and they are possibly the only breed where the ‘puppy dog eyes’ gets *worse* as they age. The wee face! The hint of ‘no, that’s okay, you take the last cupcake’ in the eyes! The quiver in the whiskers as they whisper brokenly “but, if you really loved me, you’d let me on the couch…..”.

I’m sorry! Oh, God, I’m so, so sorry! I am such an awful person. How could I ever hurt you this way? Please forgive me. Let me get you a cookie, just as a symbol of my remorse. I know it can never make up for … for … Wait a minute, I didn’t do anything!

It’s hard to choose but I think the puglet has a teeny tiny advantage.. like when they have the small town mayor race and have to count ballots three times because it’s within, like, 5 votes.. he has just that tiny win, because they are both TOO MOISCHE!

That little beagle’s egg-head of a noggin is perhaps the cutest one I’ve yet seen. Who wouldn’t want to pop a kiss on that puppy-dome?! Doesn’t help that the dark rims around her eyes make her look like she has fluttery lashes on top of those exquisite pity-me peepers.

When my little brother got married, he did so in his fiancee’s parents’ front yard (they live out in the country and it was very pretty). He and his fiancee had a Basset named Misty. Misty was in the wedding. She wore a flowered collar and walked down the “aisle” before the attendants. And then during the wedding, she was seen off to one side…

…digging out a mole and playing with it. Talk about your scene-stealer.

The dangerous and insane Saddies McFrownersons will here today be doing battle with, or rather waging war against, Professor Lazy Eye Von Sour Puss who is billed as deadly and death-bringing.

Round 1: Saddies, in a surprise first move, frowns down the Professor. But the Professor’s other eye, being occupied with other matters, does not blink.
Still, the round goes to Saddies.

Round 2: Saddies attempts to go for the K.O., but cannot look into both the Professor’s eye’s at once. He keeps her unbalanced with those shifty eyes. Neither can stare the other down.
The round is a draw.

Round 3: The Professor, lazing upon the LaZyBoy{TM} draws Saddies in close, and then fixes her with the one-eyed stare. There is no defense against such a close encounter of the whatever kind.
Round goes to the Professor.

Round 4: Saddies frowns from a distance, and, drawing closer, frowns harder, with extra droop of the ears and whiskers. No chance for the Professor.
Round goes to Saddies.

Round 5: The Professor draws Saddies’ attention with one eye, and attacks with a cold stare from the other, together with a submissive paw-under-body-I’m-so-helpless-why-hurt-me strategem. Saddies is reeling.
Round goes to Professor.

Round 6: Saddies attempts to repeat the drooping-ears-and-frown maneouver, but is foiled by the Professor’s shifty eyes. The Professor lazes back, but fails to draw Saddies in close for the shifty K.O.
The round is a draw.

Round 7: Saddies appears to be sleeping. Is this a new lure strategy ? No, wait — the Professor is lazing and sour-pussing at the same time. It looks like our bloody duel to the death, come h*ll or high water, is over.

does anyone know what breeder saddies miiicfrownersons hails from? i have a friend who has been searching for a good basset breeder— and saddies is completely ridiculous…i mean RIDICULOUS. those drooptastic ears? prime for nomming. ugh.

do the CO peeps & Ed’s realize that these two sad, pitiful, orphaned, tragic guyz/galz have entirely repressed the standard
(“HEY YOU CO GUYZ? WHERE”S THE GOSH-DARNED FRIDAY HAIKU”” revolution, which usually begins by about 6:45 am CO time….)???? Possibly the first-time since the inception of Friday Haikus on CO? Or am I entirely mistaken? perhaps there WAS a Friday Haiku; I’ve only been online for about 20 minutes & haven’t browsed through and among all the posts yet ….

If you will go see the receptionist for Dr. Lipschwitz, she will give you a questionnaire which will allow the office to determine, whether petting the screen of your computer is a valid response to the provocation by the Sad or Kyoot pets above

Now in MY personal practice, I find that to be perfectly a acceptable form of a therapeutic coping mechanism. ……but then I don’t have a Cuteness Counseling Certificate.

Signed,
I could give up the Cuteness any day now.
Really; I’m NOT hooked. Really!!

wow sometimes I have NO CLUE what a computer is gonna do. I’m so hopeless about high computer things.

I thought I had typed the numeral 8 for THAT Katrina’s comment but it came out an emoticon w/ sunglasses. Perhaps I hit the shift key and that changed the numeral 8 into a cool sunglasses guy.

sigh. So NOT a knowledgeable computer person.
(but I CAN TYPE !! mostly.)

[Fixed it. That’s not something your computer did, that’s just what WordPress interpreted as an attempt to make a sunglass smiley: number 8 and an end parenthesis, with no intervening whitespace. 8) – Ed.]

I vote for the beeeaaaagle. I have met Beagles in person, & their eyes just aren’t done justice with a picture….You need the full effect of the velveteen earsies, the tiny, cold paws on your knee (they can’t reach any higher), & the adorable, slow, sad tail-wagging.

Just keep me away from Saddies. Unless you think she’d look better without that moist nosicle. And that velvety ear flappage. And those eyes. Those EYES, people!!!! I’d have no choice but to nom her entire face. Sorry, that’s just the way it is.

The beagle/basset gets my vote! Pugs are goofy-cute, but the cute factor of hounds just turns me into a puddle of goo. (Ally L, would your friend be interested in basset rescue groups? There’s a list at http://www.akc.org/breeds/rescue.cfm#B)

@Xtineebee
My Brittany is so good at working me with the eyes that half the time I don’t even realize I have handed her my dinner/wallet/keys to the car/etc until it’s too late. I have forgiven her for chewing up my expensive new shoes the push up bra I looked high and low for and paid extra because I am a freak size and my dance dance revolution pad for my xbox. Sigh. The things I do for that dog. and she pays me back with cuddles, kisses and love.
l love her.

@ Ed: Can I have a complete list of smileys and their ASCII codes for future reference ? They can be so useful; for example, on “The Day Alfalfa Lost All Credibility” (Prongs, Dec. 2), I wished my “Pizza” reference to be followed by that red-eyed grinning horned little devil. But I did not know how to do it. (I would prefer to find out without further experimentation).

here’s the breakdown of code for various Smileys, as I have in my own files, in my hard drive, from Editors listing it on CO awhile back. A friend did a wipe / Reinstall on my hard drive so the orig. source/ address info doesn’t show in the name of my file …but this *should* help, unless some detail got tangled in the copy/ paste– Hope it’s still complete & functional. When I copied/ pasted here, the yellow resulting smileys didn’t show here in the comments box but perhaps they’ll be there when the comment gets posted.

Have a good! L. Thomas

What Text Do I Type to Make Smileys?
Smiley images and the text used to produce them*:

Picture #1 – you can’t beat a beagle puppy for sad eyes. Take it from me – I have had three that have used that look at sometime in their lifes and usually when they have done something they know they are going to be in trouble for. You just can’t get mad at them then!!

Gotta go with Sadie… even though that is the guilty look that her owners will see after she gets into the trash, eats the cat poop, runs away during that one second they took their eyes of her, howls at the fire and cop sirens, crawls under their bed covers and doesn’t budge when you ask her… only insane people love and own beagles.

@Katrine, who said: “Is it weird that I actually started petting the screen?”

No, my dear, it is not weird. What is happening is that you are simply becoming like the rest of us here at Cute Overload. Since we are not weird, we will simply “*snorgle* mooshsosouftiamdededdehdplezekilmewthsmlhamsterinfaceandakittendownmythroattoowllabeaverslapme” …and the like.

If my example statement sounds messed up, it is because it is. And I blame C.O. for giving me too much “softysmooshinfceiamdeddedtoommushsmoosh” etc.

I am sure that enough brain surgeons exist in the U.S. of A. (just south of my location in Canada) that they can deal with the growing C.O. brain-sploding overloads. Enjoy the pics while you still can!!